April Fool's

Europe is in the past, I have finally settled into the tiny apartment I am temporarily sharing with my boyfriend and a mutual guy friend, and the piles of boxes of things I don't need/have room for are stacked in a tower clear to the ceiling.

Yesterday was April Fool's. And I didn't let it pass without doing at least SOMETHING to inconvenience my roommates. So while they were both at classes for the day, I went out and bought my traditional April Fool's day ammunition: powdered red Cool-Aid. I filled the shower head with it, as is my typical annual prank, and on a whim decided to go a bit farther this year and fill the toilet tank as well. I figured at the very least it would be a surprise and get a laugh, even better if they thought maybe I, being the only girl in the house, had flushed a tampon down the toilet and it was coming back up to haunt them. 

My second prank was to switch the bathroom door knobs so that the lock was on the outside....and locked of course. Whoever went in would close the door before realizing something about their inside door knob was missing, and by then they would be locked in for as long as I desired them to be.

My third prank was to do a 'print screen' of my boyfriend's computer desktop, set it as his desktop background, then hide all his desktop icons. The computer screen would look normal, but when he tried to click on an icon, nothing would happen. It was a bit difficult to do this one because he has a dual-screen monitor, but I eventually got it to looking pretty normal. I shut it off and made lunch while waiting impatiently for my roomies to get home. 

 While my boyfriend and I were eating lunch after that, our roommate went into the bathroom. I silently snickered into my potatoes....until he came walking back out again and began nonchalantly making his own lunch. Huh?! I thought sure I'd heard the tell-tale hose-spray of him using the toilet, but I never heard the door fully shut, the toilet flush, exclamations of horror, or the rattling of a locked door. Obviously he hadn't shut the door, and if he did notice anything, he never said a word. How boring!


I had to wait the whole afternoon nearly before anyone caught on to anything. My boyfriend finally turned on his computer and I lounged, uncharacteristically, around by his side just waiting for him to try clicking on a desktop icon. When he finally did, he thought his computer was acting up and re-started it. I'm really bad at keeping a straight face, so by the 5th time he tried clicking on his icons, opening up all sorts of fix-it boxes and then turning his suspicious gaze on me, I was dying with laughter. Being the smart guy he is, once he realized I had tampered with it he knew exactly what I had done and fixed it in 10 seconds. Darn. 

He fell for the bathroom tricks too. Right before going back to class he walked into the bathroom, shut the door, and I promptly heard a rattling and accompanying groans. Our roommate, sitting in his room, asked what had happened. Apparently he hadn't actually used the toilet earlier....must have been the sink. I waited for the flush of the toilet and when it did, there came amused, laughter and an unnecessarily loud shout "Somebody plugged up the toilet!!" Of course he knew that wasn't the case, but our roommate's mind jumped straight into it and he yelled, "TMI!!!!!!!" 


I kept refilling the toilet tank with Cool-Aid throughout the day.


Our roommate finally fell for the last of my tricks when he took a shower that night after working out. I didn't hear anything at the time, but today he told me it had freaked him out for just a split second, not knowing what the red stuff coming out of the shower was. Sewage was the first thing on his mind.


Yesterday was a good day. Next year will be even better.